So, who makes this one run FreeBSD? ;-)

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:13:07AM -0800, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
> 
> --- Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > An MMU-less port of any BSD would be very
> > worthwhile, even if it
> > requires a radical divergence from the original
> > codebase.  I was
> 
> woudn''t it be rather inefficient (in the BEST case)
> -handling numerous memory contextx -1 per process? 
> 
> > hoping that such a treat would appear out of NetBSD,
> > but that doesn't
> > seem to be the case.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> They have taken a conscious decision not to work in
> that direction -as it would screw up their overall s/w
> architecture in accomodating that port [if they do
> manage to get a non-mmu port ready].

There is no doubt that this would be better as a complete split off.
It is even the question if you want to start by using an established
BSD or start from zero and import.

However - I see limited use from this.
The low end doesn't need posix API, process management and runs with
very simple hardware.
E.g. you can get ARMv7 CPUs with internal RAM of up to 64k and I
already run control systems with Ethernet and Webinterface on a
32K RAM 8 bit CPU - the memory is mostly populated by TCP buffers.
If you want more then you need at least external RAM - prices get
higher and finally your price is very close to ARMv9 and even
smaller x86 Systems.

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